Ian Aird

Ian is the CEO of English Australia. Ian has more than 25 years’ experience in the international education industry. He has experience in every aspect of ELICOS where he started as a teacher, a CELTA trainer, and a DoS before working across sales and marketing, admissions, IT, and then executive management. Ian also ran a consulting firm for five years. The firm offered services ranging across strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, financial performance improvement, research (market analysis and economic impact studies), regulatory reform and compliance, as well as executive and sales coaching. The firm's clients included federal, state, and local government bodies, industry peak bodies, and education providers from universities to multi-nationals to small family operations. Ian’s corporate governance experience includes previously sitting on the English Australia Board for 6 years, the advisory board of StudyNSW, and serving as non-executive Chair of a not for profit for 5 years.